 | 1802 - 440 pages
...thirst of power, of which so many instances occur around us, to find a character whom it is honorable to admire, and virtuous to imitate. A conqueror, for the freedom of tois country ! A legislator, for its security ! A magistrate, for its happiness ! His glories were... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...instances of violent ambition, and the criminal thirst of power, to find a character whom it is honorable to admire and virtuous to imitate. A Conqueror for the freedom of bis country !—A Legislator, for its security ! A Magistrate, for its happiness ! His glories were... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...State, he had contributed to establish, the fniits of his wisdom, and the example of his virtues. 9. It is some consolation, amidst the violence of ambition,...for the freedom of his country ! A Legislator for security ! A Magistrate for its happiness! His glories were never sullied by those excesses, into which... | |
 | 1838 - 434 pages
...us. to find » character whom it is honorable to admire, and virtuous to imitate. A conqueror, for his country ! a legislator, for its security ! a magistrate,...virtues, he was exempt from the corresponding vices. He wag a man in whom her elements were so mixed that " Nature might have stood up to »ll the world and... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 630 pages
...As he had neither solicited . nor usurped dominion, he had neither to contend with the opposition of rivals, nor the revenge of enemies. As his authority...corresponding vices. He was a man in whom the elements were so mixed, that ' Nature might have stood up to all the world' and owned him as her work. His fame,... | |
 | George Washington - Agriculture - 1847 - 220 pages
...purity of its origin ; as he had neither solicited nor usurped dominion, he had neither to contend with rivals, nor the revenge of enemies. As his authority...magistrate for its happiness! his glories were never 50 sullied by those excesses into which the highest qualities are apt to degenerate. With the greatest... | |
 | 1855 - 804 pages
...thirst of power, of which so many instances occur around us, to find a character whom it is honorable to admire, and virtuous to imitate. A conqueror, for...corresponding vices. He was a man in whom the elements were eo mixed, that "Nature might have stood up to all the world," and owned him as her work. His fame,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 406 pages
...thirst of power, of which so many instances occur around us, to find a character whom it is honorable to admire, and virtuous to imitate. A conqueror for...corresponding vices. He was a man in whom the elements were so mixed, that ' Nature might have stood up to all the world and owned him as her work.' His fame,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...thirst of power, of which so many instances occur around us, to find a character whom it is honorable to admire and virtuous to imitate. A conqueror for...corresponding vices. He was a man in whom the elements were so mixed, that u Nature might have stood up to all the world and owned him as her work." His fame,... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Hough - 1865 - 292 pages
...thirst of power, of which so many instances occur around us, to find a character whom it is honorable to admire, and virtuous to imitate. A conqueror, for...corresponding vices. He was a man in whom the elements were so mixed that "Nature might have stood up to all the world" and owned him as her work. His fame,... | |
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... to admire, and virtuous to imitate. A conqueror, for the freedom of his country ! a legislator, for its security ! a magistrate, for its happiness ! His glories were never sullied by those excesses into which the highest qualities are apt to degenerate.... 
